Red Mosquito

E.H. Ruddock wrote:Will be in Myrtle Beach March 20-25 to work and hang with my family.

doug rr wrote:2 red robins just flew into the windows of our house..it was quite the noise..poor guys.. its like they were on a suicide mission..quite sad now..I'll bury them out back soon

doug rr wrote:

doug rr wrote:2 red robins just flew into the windows of our house..it was quite the noise..poor guys.. its like they were on a suicide mission..quite sad now..I'll bury them out back soon

both buried together inside a dish towel underneath the blackberry bushes..RIP

Carl Sandburg wrote:There is a wolf in me . . . fangs pointed for tearing gashes . . . a red tongue for raw meat . . . and the hot lapping of blood—I keep this wolf because the wilderness gave it to me and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fox in me . . . a silver-gray fox . . . I sniff and guess . . . I pick things out of the wind and air . . . I nose in the dark night and take sleepers and eat them and hide the feathers . . . I circle and loop and double-cross.

There is a hog in me . . . a snout and a belly . . . a machinery for eating and grunting . . . a machinery for sleeping satisfied in the sun—I got this too from the wilderness and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fish in me . . . I know I came from salt-blue water-gates . . . I scurried with shoals of herring . . . I blew waterspouts with porpoises . . . before land was . . . before the water went down . . . before Noah . . . before the first chapter of Genesis.

There is a baboon in me . . . clambering-clawed . . . dog-faced . . . yawping a galoot's hunger . . . hairy under the armpits . . . here are the hawk-eyed hankering men . . . here are the blonde and blue-eyed women . . . here they hide curled asleep waiting . . . ready to snarl and kill . . . ready to sing and give milk . . . waiting—I keep the baboon because the wilderness says so.

There is an eagle in me and a mockingbird . . . and the eagle flies among the Rocky Mountains of my dreams and fights among the Sierra crags of what I want . . . and the mockingbird warbles in the early forenoon before the dew is gone, warbles in the underbrush of my Chattanoogas of hope, gushes over the blue Ozark foothills of my wishes—And I got the eagle and the mockingbird from the wilderness.

O, I got a zoo, I got a menagerie, inside my ribs, under my bony head, under my red-valve heart—and I got something else: it is a man-child heart, a woman-child heart: it is a father and mother and lover: it came from God-Knows-Where: it is going to God-Knows-Where—For I am the keeper of the zoo: I say yes and no: I sing and kill and work: I am a pal of the world: I came from the wilderness.

Carl Sandburg wrote:There is a wolf in me . . . fangs pointed for tearing gashes . . . a red tongue for raw meat . . . and the hot lapping of blood—I keep this wolf because the wilderness gave it to me and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fox in me . . . a silver-gray fox . . . I sniff and guess . . . I pick things out of the wind and air . . . I nose in the dark night and take sleepers and eat them and hide the feathers . . . I circle and loop and double-cross.

There is a hog in me . . . a snout and a belly . . . a machinery for eating and grunting . . . a machinery for sleeping satisfied in the sun—I got this too from the wilderness and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fish in me . . . I know I came from salt-blue water-gates . . . I scurried with shoals of herring . . . I blew waterspouts with porpoises . . . before land was . . . before the water went down . . . before Noah . . . before the first chapter of Genesis.

There is a baboon in me . . . clambering-clawed . . . dog-faced . . . yawping a galoot's hunger . . . hairy under the armpits . . . here are the hawk-eyed hankering men . . . here are the blonde and blue-eyed women . . . here they hide curled asleep waiting . . . ready to snarl and kill . . . ready to sing and give milk . . . waiting—I keep the baboon because the wilderness says so.

There is an eagle in me and a mockingbird . . . and the eagle flies among the Rocky Mountains of my dreams and fights among the Sierra crags of what I want . . . and the mockingbird warbles in the early forenoon before the dew is gone, warbles in the underbrush of my Chattanoogas of hope, gushes over the blue Ozark foothills of my wishes—And I got the eagle and the mockingbird from the wilderness.

O, I got a zoo, I got a menagerie, inside my ribs, under my bony head, under my red-valve heart—and I got something else: it is a man-child heart, a woman-child heart: it is a father and mother and lover: it came from God-Knows-Where: it is going to God-Knows-Where—For I am the keeper of the zoo: I say yes and no: I sing and kill and work: I am a pal of the world: I came from the wilderness.

dad wrote:I had a job interview scheduled for 3pm today. Just a phone interview, but I had to call and reschedule, and I'm pissed about it.

This is my week to go into the building as opposed to working from home--our team rotates going on-site to cover things we can't do from home. Typically, we can go in for a few hours and head out. Just as I was about to head out (at noon), I overhear our team lead on the phone with someone from another team, and that person on the other end is high on the food chain. I overhear our lead agreeing to push up a deadline, and start work on a project today...like now. He gets off the phone and turns around, and says he needs me to stick around to help. I can't say no.

I ask him what's needed, and how I can help, and help get it moving quickly. Then I duck out of the room because we aren't allowed to have our phones in the room because there are systems used for classified work. I duck out, and immediately call the person who set up the interview, and told her I'm sorry, and a work emergency has come up and asked to reschedule ASAP. She gave me the same time tomorrow, and this time I went ahead and requested the time off.

I then spent the next three hours waiting on another team to stand up the new systems we needed for the project, and then our lead said he'd handle things if I needed to cut out.

I'm irritated I wasted all that time waiting on something that was needed ASAP, and basically pushed back a job opportunity, which rescheduling is bad form to begin with.

Shit like that is very typical of where I work, and why I'm looking elsewhere.

tragabigzanda wrote:

VinylGuy wrote:Weird day. Very hot. Pre producing a video and a commercial for march. Thinking about going to Cannes Film Festival for the first time or not. So many stuff so little time and so expensive.

do it!

tragabigzanda wrote:sorry dad. what do you like about this new opp?

Chris_H_2 wrote:

dad wrote:I had a job interview scheduled for 3pm today. Just a phone interview, but I had to call and reschedule, and I'm pissed about it.

This is my week to go into the building as opposed to working from home--our team rotates going on-site to cover things we can't do from home. Typically, we can go in for a few hours and head out. Just as I was about to head out (at noon), I overhear our team lead on the phone with someone from another team, and that person on the other end is high on the food chain. I overhear our lead agreeing to push up a deadline, and start work on a project today...like now. He gets off the phone and turns around, and says he needs me to stick around to help. I can't say no.

I ask him what's needed, and how I can help, and help get it moving quickly. Then I duck out of the room because we aren't allowed to have our phones in the room because there are systems used for classified work. I duck out, and immediately call the person who set up the interview, and told her I'm sorry, and a work emergency has come up and asked to reschedule ASAP. She gave me the same time tomorrow, and this time I went ahead and requested the time off.

I then spent the next three hours waiting on another team to stand up the new systems we needed for the project, and then our lead said he'd handle things if I needed to cut out.

I'm irritated I wasted all that time waiting on something that was needed ASAP, and basically pushed back a job opportunity, which rescheduling is bad form to begin with.

Shit like that is very typical of where I work, and why I'm looking elsewhere.

after reading this, i still can't tell whether you work for the CIA, google, at a restaurant, or as a volunteer at a food pantry.

dad wrote:

Chris_H_2 wrote:

dad wrote:I had a job interview scheduled for 3pm today. Just a phone interview, but I had to call and reschedule, and I'm pissed about it.

This is my week to go into the building as opposed to working from home--our team rotates going on-site to cover things we can't do from home. Typically, we can go in for a few hours and head out. Just as I was about to head out (at noon), I overhear our team lead on the phone with someone from another team, and that person on the other end is high on the food chain. I overhear our lead agreeing to push up a deadline, and start work on a project today...like now. He gets off the phone and turns around, and says he needs me to stick around to help. I can't say no.

I ask him what's needed, and how I can help, and help get it moving quickly. Then I duck out of the room because we aren't allowed to have our phones in the room because there are systems used for classified work. I duck out, and immediately call the person who set up the interview, and told her I'm sorry, and a work emergency has come up and asked to reschedule ASAP. She gave me the same time tomorrow, and this time I went ahead and requested the time off.

I then spent the next three hours waiting on another team to stand up the new systems we needed for the project, and then our lead said he'd handle things if I needed to cut out.

I'm irritated I wasted all that time waiting on something that was needed ASAP, and basically pushed back a job opportunity, which rescheduling is bad form to begin with.

Shit like that is very typical of where I work, and why I'm looking elsewhere.

after reading this, i still can't tell whether you work for the CIA, google, at a restaurant, or as a volunteer at a food pantry.

I'm not qualified for any of those places.

wease wrote:

dad wrote:

Chris_H_2 wrote:

dad wrote:I had a job interview scheduled for 3pm today. Just a phone interview, but I had to call and reschedule, and I'm pissed about it.

This is my week to go into the building as opposed to working from home--our team rotates going on-site to cover things we can't do from home. Typically, we can go in for a few hours and head out. Just as I was about to head out (at noon), I overhear our team lead on the phone with someone from another team, and that person on the other end is high on the food chain. I overhear our lead agreeing to push up a deadline, and start work on a project today...like now. He gets off the phone and turns around, and says he needs me to stick around to help. I can't say no.

I ask him what's needed, and how I can help, and help get it moving quickly. Then I duck out of the room because we aren't allowed to have our phones in the room because there are systems used for classified work. I duck out, and immediately call the person who set up the interview, and told her I'm sorry, and a work emergency has come up and asked to reschedule ASAP. She gave me the same time tomorrow, and this time I went ahead and requested the time off.

I then spent the next three hours waiting on another team to stand up the new systems we needed for the project, and then our lead said he'd handle things if I needed to cut out.

I'm irritated I wasted all that time waiting on something that was needed ASAP, and basically pushed back a job opportunity, which rescheduling is bad form to begin with.

Shit like that is very typical of where I work, and why I'm looking elsewhere.

after reading this, i still can't tell whether you work for the CIA, google, at a restaurant, or as a volunteer at a food pantry.

I'm not qualified for any of those places.

Go ahead and tell them dad. The interview was with me.

dad wrote:

wease wrote:

dad wrote:

Chris_H_2 wrote:

dad wrote:I had a job interview scheduled for 3pm today. Just a phone interview, but I had to call and reschedule, and I'm pissed about it.

This is my week to go into the building as opposed to working from home--our team rotates going on-site to cover things we can't do from home. Typically, we can go in for a few hours and head out. Just as I was about to head out (at noon), I overhear our team lead on the phone with someone from another team, and that person on the other end is high on the food chain. I overhear our lead agreeing to push up a deadline, and start work on a project today...like now. He gets off the phone and turns around, and says he needs me to stick around to help. I can't say no.

I ask him what's needed, and how I can help, and help get it moving quickly. Then I duck out of the room because we aren't allowed to have our phones in the room because there are systems used for classified work. I duck out, and immediately call the person who set up the interview, and told her I'm sorry, and a work emergency has come up and asked to reschedule ASAP. She gave me the same time tomorrow, and this time I went ahead and requested the time off.

I then spent the next three hours waiting on another team to stand up the new systems we needed for the project, and then our lead said he'd handle things if I needed to cut out.

I'm irritated I wasted all that time waiting on something that was needed ASAP, and basically pushed back a job opportunity, which rescheduling is bad form to begin with.

Shit like that is very typical of where I work, and why I'm looking elsewhere.

after reading this, i still can't tell whether you work for the CIA, google, at a restaurant, or as a volunteer at a food pantry.

I'm not qualified for any of those places.

Go ahead and tell them dad. The interview was with me.

I'll be the best employee you never had.

Chris_H_2 wrote:

dad wrote:

wease wrote:

dad wrote:

Chris_H_2 wrote:

dad wrote:I had a job interview scheduled for 3pm today. Just a phone interview, but I had to call and reschedule, and I'm pissed about it.

This is my week to go into the building as opposed to working from home--our team rotates going on-site to cover things we can't do from home. Typically, we can go in for a few hours and head out. Just as I was about to head out (at noon), I overhear our team lead on the phone with someone from another team, and that person on the other end is high on the food chain. I overhear our lead agreeing to push up a deadline, and start work on a project today...like now. He gets off the phone and turns around, and says he needs me to stick around to help. I can't say no.

I ask him what's needed, and how I can help, and help get it moving quickly. Then I duck out of the room because we aren't allowed to have our phones in the room because there are systems used for classified work. I duck out, and immediately call the person who set up the interview, and told her I'm sorry, and a work emergency has come up and asked to reschedule ASAP. She gave me the same time tomorrow, and this time I went ahead and requested the time off.

I then spent the next three hours waiting on another team to stand up the new systems we needed for the project, and then our lead said he'd handle things if I needed to cut out.

I'm irritated I wasted all that time waiting on something that was needed ASAP, and basically pushed back a job opportunity, which rescheduling is bad form to begin with.

Shit like that is very typical of where I work, and why I'm looking elsewhere.

after reading this, i still can't tell whether you work for the CIA, google, at a restaurant, or as a volunteer at a food pantry.

I'm not qualified for any of those places.

Go ahead and tell them dad. The interview was with me.

I'll be the best employee you never had.

did you ever get that flat tire repaired?

E.H. Ruddock wrote:Will be in Myrtle Beach March 20-25 to work and hang with my family.